Lauren Bacall

Oh Betty, such good hair. 

celluloidshadows:

Actor Lauren Bacall’s hair and makeup test photos for the 1944 Howard Hawks film “To Have And Have Not”, also starring Humphrey Bogart. Click the pic to watch a scene from the movie.

Beautiful...

so beautiful…

I love this still so much. the distinct type of depth to the image reminds me of one of my favorite photography books OF ALL TIME by Thomas Allen . The precision and the fullness of this frame and the following are so captivating.  (of course Allen’s is a much more tedious process…he uses old pulp book covers with a conventional 4”x5” film camera and manually manipulates all lighting, focus, and “cast”. it’s brilliant).The expressions on these character’s faces convey just as much as the ones in Allen’s work. The wonderful thing is that in the book covers someone was able to create exactly what they wanted those people to be conveying at that precise moment. All of the elements that make this still image so engrossing take a lot of planning as well, but also just a little bit of magic that collaboration can bring… 

oldhollywood:

Marilyn Monroe & Eli Wallach in The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Erich Hartmann.

Old Hollywood

Photo reblogged from Old Hollywood

oldhollywood:

Katharine Hepburn & Montgomery Clift on the set of Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Photographer: Burt Glinn (via)